Robots read pages too
The audience of any publicly accessible website is never exclusively human. A substantial and entirely normal portion of internet traffic consists of automated programs, generally known as…
Testing with curl tests the wrong thing
A counter request that arrives without a browser identity writes into two of the twelve places a counted visit normally touches. It answers 200. It returns a valid counter image. Nothing…
One crawler made most of our bot traffic
Counters here keep robots in a column of their own. They are recorded, but they do not move the number on the badge unless the setting is switched on. That separation makes it easy to ask a…
Counters have been counting robots
Counters here have been counting robots. All of them, without exception. Until this month nobody here could say how many, because nothing was measuring it — and a crawler that requests a…